Canberra’s top IT Services providers of the last decade will need to re-evaluate their business approaches in the face of a rapidly evolving Federal Government ICT landscape, including a changed procurement environment where contracts can be no bigger in value than $100 million or no longer in duration than three years...

Coming up to another opportunity to ‘refresh’ its supplier base in March 2018, the future of the Federal Government’s dedicated vehicle for cloud procurement – the Cloud Services Panel (CSP) – is not entirely clear-cut...

The capping of federal IT contracts to less than $100 million or three years duration is likely to have a significant impact on the federal ICT market, with around a third of contracts by value in the past five years exceeding the term limit...

To ease the mounting burden on the Australian Signal Directorate (ASD) to provide secure cloud certifications, the government will start allowing some agency assessments on cloud services to become baselines for re-use by other agencies...

Monitoring ICT project progress on a single Whole-of-Government (WofG) dashboard is becoming a favourable way for governments to improve ICT project management – with New South Wales the latest jurisdiction to install such a platform, and Western Australia and Tasmania closely following suit...

Collaboration and communication technologies used by the public sector have come a long way in recent years, with governments now experimenting with a host of new features such as social networking, group conferencing, online profiles, instant messaging, crowdsourcing, and real-time co-authoring of documents...

In 2016-17, IBM dropped out of Intermedium’s top five Federal Government ICT suppliers* for the first time in over ten years. In 2017-18, it looks set to return to this group, as it is currently sitting at third spot in the rankings. If Defence-only suppliers are excluded from the analysis, IBM is currently in top place. This rebound is noteworthy, given that the supplier was in ninth place on the leaderboard in 2016-17 – its lowest position on the leader board in the last...